Watch

Watchmaker: C.B. Freundler

Watchmaker: Jean-François Bautte French

ca. 1835

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 554

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Provenance

Title: Watch
Maker: Watchmaker: C.B. Freundler
Maker: Watchmaker: Jean-François Bautte (French, 1772–1837)
Date: ca. 1835
Culture: Swiss, Geneva
Medium: Case: gold and enamel; jeweled movemene
Dimensions: Diameter: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
Classification: Horology
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926
Object Number: 26.267.2
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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